Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!
Definitely, but sadly it’s his lawyers job to argue things like this to protect their client. It also means a jury has to buy it, which they probably won’t if this is actually allowed to be used as evidence.
I would hope publicly crippling them would be enough, but I’d rather they get actual justice.
Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…
Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”
Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.
Further, a society that ends up relying on the work of vigilantes usually only happens in societies where the justice system is failing to do it’s job and people feel the need to become vigilantes to exact justice. Yet obviously what these groups do is not justice, although it may seem cathartic and akin to justice to people who think that hurting people who hurt others back is the only solution to anything at all.
It speaks ill about where our society stands and it fits in with the wider theme of conservatism wanting to dismantle modern society and make it fail to function so people stop relying on it. To them, the failure of the justice system and people turning to mob violence is part of the goal to keep citizens fighting among themselves instead of their masters.
These things really can destroy cases as a lot of stuff suddenly becomes inadmissible in court because it wasn’t presented through proper channels and jurists may be requested to ignore it entirely. At least this is how it can work in the USA in a lot of cases.
Further, depending on the circumstances of how the initial connection to the pedophile in question was made, it can be potentially considered a type of entrapment, as it may be able to be argued that if this person did not present themselves as a willing child to begin with that the perpetrator may have never attempted to pursue such a crime.
The fact that they’re backed by right wing politicians kind of says everything: They’re way more concerned with looking like they’re doing something about the social issue of pedophiles while actually not doing very much at all. There’s also a suspiciously high number of people in these “catch a pedophile” groups who end up being convicted of some sort of pedophilia themselves, as though they’re projecting their own disgust with themselves and/or they think people won’t suspect them of it as long as they’re busy busting others for it. The conservative right wing only cares about appearances, not real solutions, while allowing the Epstein class to continue trafficking, raping, and killing children.
This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.
It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.
On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.
Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.
I’m shocked, shocked.
Well, not that shocked.
'Member when all the liberals were glazing the New York Times simply because Trump called it “the failing New York Times” so they felt the need to get subscriptions to help the newspaper *checks notes… prioritize conservative voices and pave the way for a second Trump presidency.
Pepperidge Farm 'Members.
Wild, I have never had that issue on desktop or in Jerboa.
If you forget to select a language when making a post, the language becomes “undetermined.”
The vast majority of people do not take the time to mark the language of their post, and so Lemmy files them under “undetermined” because there is no language information.
When making a post, when you choose the “Undetermined” from the language-selector, it just pops it back to asking you to select a language, because the point of “Undetermined” is that no language metadata has been added.
So in your user settings page, if you remove “Undetermined” from your list of languages, you will not see most posts since most people do not actually choose a language for their post.
I personally do not find this confusing at all.
I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.
99% of my stuff from 1337x
what trackers even are
Meanwhile, me: Pirating since before Napster, has automated nothing at all, likes browsing private torrent trackers websites because it sort of makes me feel like I’m in Blockbuster video in the 90s walking the aisles and checking what’s available.
Insert Trump “I did that!” sticker.
Don’t worry, Debord didn’t think he was either! He actually thought that his Situationist writing would be forgotten and that he would be remembered for his (ironically now forgotten) board game Kriegspiel. Instead Society of the Spectacle is now considered an important piece of French culture and history.
Always has been.
The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called “culture jamming.”
I don’t actually dislike AI. I dislike that corporations view it as a way to stop hiring humans entirely. I dislike that it’s being used to create massive amounts of disinformation. I dislike that corporate AI is all about massive datacenters that are ruining ecosystems and towns.
I think AI when deployed properly (especially when it’s used for a specific specialized purpose instead of general purpose), it can be a great tool. The hype of it taking over is only because rich people can’t stand paying a dime to a human, they want a slave that never sleeps or asks for a raise. There’s open source models you can run locally that don’t take a datacenter. I dunno, it seems like it’s useful (not as useful as claimed) but it’s being exploited mostly by the worst people possible.
lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?